Visions convergentes The main concept behind “Visions” for Horn & Piano is the idea of two separate elements expressing the same idea, in other words, how certain themes are viewed and developed by each of the two instrument. Beginning with a main theme that could be considered as the starting point, both instruments take parallel but somewhat independent paths, using the thematic material in different ways, sometimes crossing and briefly overlapping only to again go their separate ways. The introduction of a secondary theme is treated similarly between the two instruments. Following with that same idea, the piano briefly announces the second movement even before the horn has even started the Cadenza at the end of the first movement. It is in this second movement that the dissociation between the two instruments is most obvious since the main theme played by the horn is a variation of the first movement theme, which is not reflected in the piano, and vice versa. It is only at the end of the movement that the horn and piano once again converge on the piano theme. The main characteristic of the third movement is that even though the two instruments would appear to have an identical vision of the theme, one in which they execute the thematic material in a more similar way, most of the time the principal obstacle for the convergence of the two, in the designed question and answer format, is the subtle shifts in time, which range anywhere from the difference of a few bars to a quasi coinciding sixteenth notes. Juan J. Colomer Januar 2007
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